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Take Action Tucson @takeactiontucson.org · 4h

Wondering what to do this weekend? Here's your guide to all of the No Kings events in the Tucson area!

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 4h

...past the eldritch propane tank deep in the Misty Woods...

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 10h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

Some tech fascists are true believers, but Marc Benioff's MAGA conversion is also an audition for government contracts.

These craven men would bid to build the Death Star for Darth Vader.

Mr. “Dreamforce” begs to augment the Nightmare Force of fascism.

gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

www.nytimes.com

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings ❌👑

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7h

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Per our scoop last night, Suzy Weiss, sister of Bari, did indeed appear on CBS this morning to talk about her recent article in The Free Press.

Second Free Press writer on CBS this week.

Read more on staff concerns on The Free Press's presence inside the newsroom:
zeteo.com/p/inside-bar...

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 6h

MAGAts got nuthin' so they're using AI-Faked video and quotes. Pathetic Basement-dwelling losers/

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 8h

This is the most absurdly unethical piece of political advertisjng I've ever seen.

Schumer did not say this on video, nor creepily smile as he said it.

It's pure AI.

I cannot believe we're at this point already.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

So hit back. Promote the fact that the GOP is so desperate they have to use fake AI-generated quotes. Call it out and make them own it.

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 8h

This is the most absurdly unethical piece of political advertisjng I've ever seen.

Schumer did not say this on video, nor creepily smile as he said it.

It's pure AI.

I cannot believe we're at this point already.

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❌👑🐝IndyDeVoe🐝 Freedom Security Democracy 🫘 @indydevoeus.bsky.social · 13h

Big Bird will be out there supporting our democracy - and literacy - with a banner that says

READ THE CONSTITUTION

The Cat in the Hat will assist.

#NoKings #October18 #LFG

An inflatable Big Bird- who is a GO! for NO KINGS on October 18

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Indivisible Palo Alto Plus @indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social · 4d

“Frogs together strong!” 👍

THE PEOPLE'S FROG

SOLIDARITY FOREVER
NO HATE
NO FEAR
STAND TOGETHER WHEN WE LEAP TOGETHER, NO WALL CAN STAND.

Over an image of a frog standing wearing a cape.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 9h

Trump: "AND I made the tides come in, and I made the Sun rise, and I made all the pretty flowers!! Did I get the Nobel Prize in physics, or biology? No! It's very unfair!!"

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 9h

NAME them. Go ahead.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Mask off

Those are real messages from a leaked GoP telegram group.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 11h

Or, you ignorant moron, #3. I know exactly how it works, what it does, what it costs, and its impact, AND I know "effectively" can only be defined from ignorance. AI sucks

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ReformReferee (Taylor’s Version) @reformreferee.bsky.social · 12h

Whew. Sartre fucking me up with the truth on a Friday.

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13h

French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick.
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge,” Sartre said. “But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Fascism, as Robert O. Paxton writes in The Anatomy of Fascism, “is an affair of the gut more than of the brain,” a phenomenon of “mobilizing passions” reaching a fever pitch that turns otherwise reasonable people into delusional, dangerous fanatics yearning for the void, for fascist movements – anywhere they are found, or have been found – want nothing more than the end of all things. It is a movement of death and destruction, of all-consuming nihilism. It is a movement that seeks to dismantle love and human connection wherever it is. It is an assault on what it is to be a human being. Nothing about fascism is natural. In fact, Paxton cites a number of intellectuals who in the 1930s dismissed fascism as a most unnatural phenomenon.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12h

10 months in and we're getting drunk SS members asking local cops if they're Haitian

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Democrats @democrats.org · 11h

Graphic featuring Donald Trump with the following text:

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

Donald Trump seemingly ignoring the First Amendment

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 12h

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

ICE is: Pulled over drunk driving in the wrong lane (into oncoming traffic) at 3 PM with 2 children under 10, and such an extreme racist that he manages to make the traffic stop about Haitian people.

There are no good apples in ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking about the recent comments by Emmer, Leavitt, Trump, Johnson and many other GOP leaders about the "No Kings" protesters and the Democratic Party, in light of Ezra Klein's recent concerns about how Democrats/progressives are losing because they've "written a lot of people off."

I think more of it came out in this than I had intended, probably. But, in many ways, we’ve stopped doing politics. We’ve written a lot of people off, and in writing them off, we are losing, and we are unable to protect ourselves, unable to protect them and just unable to make good change in the world.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 12h

The only Americans with "...more freedom right now to express themselves..." are the Nazis, Fascists and Racists.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 2d

ET: "well, friends of friends. maybe friends of friends of friends. Maybe Don's friend's maid's kid's boss's last babysitter. Anyways, I've heard it, or thought I heard it, or something like that. Very truthy."

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